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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

PART III
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We left this spot with reluctance, but highly exhilarated.

When we had walked about a mile and a half, we overtook two men with a string of ponies and some empty carts.

I recommended to Dorothy to avail herself of this opportunity of husbanding her strength: we rode with them more than two miles.

'Twas bitter cold, the wind driving the snow behind us in the best style of a mountain storm.

We soon reached an inn at a place called Hardrane, and descending from our vehicles, after warming ourselves by the cottage fire, we walked up the brook-side to take a view of a third waterfall.
We had not walked above a few hundred yards between two winding rocky banks, before we came full upon the waterfall, which seemed to throw itself in a narrow line from a lofty wall of rock, the water, which shot manifestly to some distance from the rock, seeming to be dispersed into a thin shower scarcely visible before it reached the bason.


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